Dominique Strauss-Kahn supporters offered his former lover money for silence

Former International Monetary Fund chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn’s allies tried to “buy the silence” of one of his ex-lovers with a four million pound pay off to stop her ‘talking too much’ about their affair.

The bid was allegedly made last month when Strauss-Kahn was still facing attempted rape charges in the US, The Telegraph reports.

It is claimed that Strauss-Kahn’s sympathisers were worried that a testimony from Marie-Victorine M’Bissa about their “forceful” relationship could damage his attempt to set himself free from sex allegations in New York.

The alleged offer was made shortly after M’Bissa gave her first media appearance insisting how she attempted suicide when Strauss-Kahn broke off their nine-month affair in 1997. In an interview with Swiss magazine L'Illustré, M'Bissa described 62-year-old Strauss-Kahn as a “physical man” with a “huge sexual appetite” and someone who “can be very manipulative”.

Meanwhile, M’Bissa’s father has alleged that he was approached by a Strauss-Kahn sympathiser who said: “Your daughter talks too much.” André M’Bissa, said that that this individual asked him how much he wanted to silence his daughter, to which he replied: “Five million euros”. He claimed the person wrote the figure and left.